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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Transgender Propaganda: Church to celebrate life of "Catholic" priest who found peace as a transgender woman

Transgender Propaganda: Church to celebrate life of "Catholic" priest who found peace as a transgender woman

[Not a woman who became a “priest” but a priest who became a “woman”!]

Wedgewood Church, a welcoming and diverse house of worship of 60
worshipers — half of whom are gays, lesbians or transgender persons.

On Sunday, Wedgewood Church in Charlotte will celebrate Nancy Ledins,
a congregant who began life in 1932 as William Griglak, became a Roman
Catholic priest in 1959 and underwent a sex-change operation in 1979.

She died last week at age 84, said Wedgewood co-pastor Chris Ayers.
Decades before Caitlin Jenner and HB2 turned the status of
transgender persons into a national debate, Ledins made headlines around
the country as perhaps the first female priest in the history of the
Catholic church, as the Los Angeles Times put it in a 1980 article.Nancy Ledins was known among fellow members at Wedgewood Church for her Latin benedictions.
Her life was not an easy journey. Not long after her operation became
news in 1979, Ayers said, she was shot at, had her car bombed and was
sent dead animals in the mail.
But Ledins eventually found peace.
Finally embracing the person, the woman, she’d always felt like
inside rescued her from the depression that had tormented her for years,
Ayers said.
“For the first time in my life, I am running into and not from. What a
healthy feeling!,” she wrote in a letter to her parents in 1978, as she
was beginning her gender transition. “I am now very very glad to be
alive. … My bucket of tears (and there were many) are over. The sunshine
is real.”
And in the last five years of her life, Ledins found new purpose as
an active member at Wedgewood, a Charlotte church of about 60 worshipers
– half of whom are gay, lesbian or transgender – that is affiliated
with the American Baptists Churches USA and the United Church of Christ.
At this small but welcoming and diverse house of worship, Ayers said,
she “preached, served the Eucharist, baptized children, anointed
congregants with oil, sang benedictions in Latin … and, most
importantly, changed us and the world through her incredible life and
ministry.”
In a Monday blog post headlined “Goodbye, Nancy,” Wedgewood member
Maddison Wood recalled the first time she attended one of the church’s
Sunday services.
“I’m pretty sure I audibly gasped when Reverend Doctor Nancy Ledins
took the pulpit,” Wood wrote. “The reason why I was in awe that day is
because I had never seen an old transgender person. In her 80s, living
her best life, being trans. In the lines on Nancy’s face, I found hope. I
looked at her and felt content, like everything was going to be OK. She
was transgender, came out as transgender in the 1970s, and she had
lived – not just survived, but lived – to old age.”Still a priest?
According to a timeline provided by Wedgewood Church, Ledins was a
native of Cleveland, Ohio. As a priest with the Missionaries of the
Precious Blood, a Catholic religious order, Father William served in a
parish in Detroit, went to Vietnam as an Army chaplain, and worked as a
pastor and psychologist in Colorado.
But the priest harbored a secret. “I recall from way back that I
didn’t know what to call it, but I felt it and knew that you didn’t talk
about it,” Ledins told the National un-Catholic Reporter in 1979. “I
wanted to be like my sister. I didn’t want to be myself. Women didn’t
seem to be hassled like I felt hassled.”
In 1969, Ledins – then still William Griglak – resigned from the
priesthood and, a year later, married a former nun. “It was my last
macho attempt to find an answer,” Ledins later told the national
un-Catholic newspaper.
They moved to Indiana, where Griglak worked as a psychologist in the
drug treatment section of the state’s Commission on Mental Health.
But the couple later divorced – a prerequisite, Ledins told the
National un-Catholic Reporter, before the surgeon in Trinidad, Colo.,
would perform the sex-change operation.
Was she still a priest? And, more than that, the first and only woman
priest in a Catholic church that barred women from being ordained
priests?
Some newspapers at the time wondered and essentially decided that she was.
“Priest’s Sex Change May Pose Test of Church Law,” read the headline
atop that 1980 article in the Los Angeles Times. It also included this
accompanying headline kicker: “FORMER FATHER WILLIAM NOW A WOMAN.”In 1980, the Los Angeles Times interviewed Nancy Ledins and told her
story. The article’s focus was on whether she was still a priest in the
Roman Catholic Church.
Ledins, then 47 and living in Van Nuys, Calif., “might be the first
woman priest in Roman Catholic history in a technical sense,” wrote
religion reporter John Dart, “since she never sought to be returned
officially to lay status, has never been summarily notified of such by
the church and, by the usual understanding of church law, is still a
priest – though not a legally functioning one.”
The article also featured before-and-after-the-operation photos: One
showed a balding Father Griglak, the other showed Ledins with a full
head of hair – thanks, the article said, to a “hair weave of
reddish-brown tint.”
The article added, though, that the broad-shouldered Ledins joked that “I’m no Miss America.”
The article in the National un-Catholic Reporter put it this way: “On
Holy Thursday, the Catholic Church got its first woman priest. It was
done quietly in Trinidad, Colo.” It wasn’t a bishop that gave the church
its first female priest, the article added, “it was a surgeon.”
But Ledins made it clear at the time that she didn’t intend to
embarrass the church, and declined offers to publicly celebrate Mass as
Nancy Ledins.
“Technically, I’m still ordained,” she told the National un-Catholic
Reporter. “But if the church is clever enough, there is probably a canon
somewhere that spells my demise as a priest.”
Other newspapers took a less serious approach in headlines. From the
Arizona Republic: “Ex-Catholic priest turns from the cloth to a dress.”
And from the Orange County Register in California: “The Priest is a
Lady.”
It’s uncertain whether the Catholic church itself ever recognized
Ledins’ operation as one that truly changed her gender in the eyes of
the church.
The Catholic News Service reported in 2003 that the Vatican sent a
confidential document to bishops instructing them never to alter the sex
listed in parish baptismal records and that gender remained what it was
at birth.
Bishop Wilton Gregory, then the president of the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops, wrote a subsequent letter to his colleagues that said
this: “The altered condition of a member of the faithful under civil law
does not change one’s canonical condition, which is male or female as
determined at the moment of birth.”‘Blazed the trail’
In the years after her surgery, Ledins mostly worked in the field of
electrology – the practice of electrically removing hair permanently
from the body.
She moved to Charlotte in 1996, and worked as a tax preparer.
But her call to the ministry was never far from her heart.
That 1980 Los Angeles Times article ended with a question for Ledins: How much of the priest was still in her?
“Quite a bit,” she answered. “I still have that feeling of wanting to minister to people.”
At Wedgewood Church in Charlotte, she shared her past with others in the congregation and often helped lead the worship.
For the Rev. Marsha Tegard, a member of Wedgewood for nearly two years, Ledins was a pioneer and an inspiration.
Tegard had been an Assemblies of God minister, but left that
conservative Christian denomination before coming out as a transgender
woman. She stayed away from churches for 12 years after that. Then she
found Wedgewood, where Ledins encouraged her.
“She was just so welcoming and just kind of embraced me as someone
just starting out on my journey,” Tegard said. “She told me, ‘It’s OK to
be you. God loves you. You have a place in the Kingdom.’ ”
When Ledins got sick, Tegard learned and offered a Latin benediction
in her honor. Said Tegard: “I believe Nancy blazed the trail for people
like me.”
Betsy Ragone, another Wedgewood member, found a strong and sensitive
friend and counselor in Ledins after her son died of an accidental drug
overdose. “A really amazing lady,” said Ragone, who also got help from
Ledins in setting up a non-profit, “Michael’s Voice,” in her son’s
memory.
In 2014, on the 55th anniversary of her becoming a Catholic priest, Ledins offered a prayer at Wedgwood.
“Lord Father, my special thanks for the gift of ordination and
ministry over the years,” she proclaimed. “And thank you for letting me
be here. Amen and amen. Alleluia.”Nancy Ledins serves Communion at Wedgewood Church. Asked in 1979 by
the National un-Catholic Reporter how she thought God viewed her
transition from a Catholic priest to a transgender woman, Ledins said
this: “In George Burns movie (‘Oh God!’), he says (as God), ‘I made the
avocado pit too big.’ I figure God says the same thing about us. We’re
partners in creation. Sexuality is a setting up of variables in a
person. I’m changing some of the variables. I think God smiles. I really
do.”

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."